Word: swept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spread the bills on the kitchen table to gloat over them. Then he went to get a drink. His six-year-old son, a neat child, found the dirty scraps of paper littering the table. He swept them together, clutched them up, pushed them into the fireplace. The flames spouted and little black cinders of money blew up the chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When...
About 6 o'clock the Yale University shell covered the same stretch of water at a racing stroke. Conditions were fast as the Blue rowers swept smoothly down the river. Harvard managers in automobiles, following the crews along the course, clocked the Elis in 20 minutes 43 seconds...
...necessitate the hire of air fleets and duels, a Cathedral and High Mass, hordes of soldiers, five tanks "bigger and uglier than any contemporary tanks," a battleship which explodes - and, on top of all this, New York's East Side tenements would have to be first bombed, then swept into the sea. . . . Mr. Wells was unhappy when he finished The King Who Was a King. Reason : "Not one in a thousand who would see this gladly on a screen will ever read it as a book...
...havoc was on paper. Real tragedy swept the clouds when two planes, flying in close formation in the simulated air raid on Columbus, collided at 10,000 ft. Lieut. Edward L. Meadow was chewed to bits by the propeller of a plane piloted by Lieut. A. Fred Solter. Lieut. Solter, parachuting for his life, was carried to a hospital...
Commission Changes. Changes were proposed in the Tariff Commission to bring it under close Presidential control. The old membership would be swept out of office. Seven, instead of six, new commissioners would be appointed, at higher salaries. Two-party representation on the Commission would be abolished. With this new Commission, the President could utilize the flexible provision of the tariff law (50% changes in tariff rates at a stroke of the pen) with great facility...